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2006  :  Metamorphoses (moralisés) Epistre d'Othea Epistre St Bernard Bréviaire des nobles Complaintes des 9 malheureux et des 9 malheureuses

Number

2006


Shelf Marks

  • London, BL, Royal 17 E iv

Owners before c.1550

  • Edward IV of England ?

Commissioners

  • Edward IV of England ??
    • Sovereign: King
    • Gender : Man

Country

United Kingdom


Ownership Category

Public

Origin

  • Place
    • Region : Flanders
    • Towns : Bruges
    • Details : Flanders
  • Date
    • Date details : c.1470-1480 (c.1480-1500 ?)
    • Half centuries : 1450-1499
    • Decade : 1470 - 1479


Physical description

Measurements

  • 328 leaves
  • Size categories of height : 400-424 mm
  • Height of text blocks : 410 mm
  • Width of text blocks : 300 mm

Illustrations

  • Information on the illustrations : 1 gr(Epitre d'O), 15 small miniatures(Ovidius)
  • Total number of illustrations : 16
  • Number of miniatures : 16
  • Number of historiated initials :
  • Number of grisailles :
  • Number of drawings :

Miniaturists

  • Philippe de Mazerolles / M Froissart Commynes
  • M Chattering Hands

Material

Parchment

Binding

  • Description :
  • Dating : (no data)


Content

Genre

didactic

Authors

  • Ovidius
  • Christine de Pizan
  • ps Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Alain Chartier

Translators

  • Jean Miélot (Epistre de St Bernard)

Contents

  • 1 : Metamorphoses (moralisés)
  • 2 : Epistre d'Othea
  • 3 : Epistre St Bernard
  • 4 : Bréviaire des nobles
  • 5 : Complaintes des 9 malheureux et des 9 malheureuses

Languages

  • French

Bibliography

Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010, p.582 (M Chattering Hands, no. 24)

Bernard Bousmanne & Thierry Delcourt (dir.), Ilona Hans-Collas, Pascal Schandel, Céline Van Hoorebeeck & Michiel Verweij (eds.), Miniatures flamandes, 1404-1492, exhib. cat. (Brussels-Paris, 2011-2012), Paris-Brussels, 2011, p. 305

George F. Warner & Julius P. Gilson, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King’s Collections, 4 vols, London 1921, vol. II, p. 259

Janet Backhouse, ‘Founders of the Royal Library: Edward IV and Henry VII as Collectors of Illuminated Manuscripts’, England in the Fifteenth Century. Proceedings of the 1986 Harlaxton Symposium, Woodbridge 1987, 23-41: Royal Library, list 3

Online Informations and images

Description and images: http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=5691&CollID=16&NStart=170504

Responsable

Hanno Wijsman